Battlefield Hardline has spent its second week in pole position of the GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40.Sales of EA's new shooter fell by 43 per cent week-on-week, but Hardline still beat this week's top new release, Sony's PS4-exclusive Bloodborne.The hardcore RPG debuted at No.2, falling 22,500 units short of first place. In third place is another new entry into the charts, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection – a PS4 and Xbox One remaster of 2012's Borderlands 2 and last year's Pre-Sequel.Grand Theft Auto V falls once place to No.4 as sales dip 11 per cent, while FIFA 15 remains steady in fifth position.Retailer promotions help Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Far Cry 4 this week – sales of the former rose 43 per cent, while the latter's sales shot up 233 per cent.They weren't the only games to benefit from price activity, either. Sales of The Order 1886 rose 112 per cent thanks to retailer promotions, bringing it back to No.10.And Minecraft: PlayStation Edition falls out of the Top 10 for the first time since February. In spite of a nine per cent rise in sales week-on-week, the PlayStation SKUs of the construction title drop from No.10 to 13th place. Minecraft: Xbox Edition sits in ninth place.Below is the software Top 10 for the week ending March 28th:1. Battlefield Hardline (EA)
2. Bloodborne (Sony)
3. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (2K Games)
4. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
5. FIFA 15 (EA)
6. Dying Light (Warner Bros)
7. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
8. Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
9. Minecraft: Xbox Edition (Microsoft)
10. The Order 1886 (Sony)

The European Commission has announced plans that, if passed, will turn the digital video games market on its head.Currently sellers such as Valve (Steam), Sony (PlayStation Network) and Microsoft (Xbox Live) funnel customers through regional portals according to their location. This is done partially for rights reasons but primarily to allow for the setting of individual prices in each region.Such pricing strategies, however, could be outlawed in the EU. The move would also pose problems for services such as Netflix, which currently ranges its content on a per-region basis.“Let us do away with all those fences and walls that block us online,” the Commission’s VP for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said. “People must be able to freely go across borders online just as they do offline.“Innovative businesses must be helped to grow across the EU, not remain locked into their home market. This will be an uphill struggle all the way, but we need an ambitious start. Europe should benefit fully from the digital age: better services, more participation and new jobs.”Commissioner for the Digital Economy Günther Oettinger added: “Europe cannot be at the forefront of the digital revolution with a patchwork of 28 different rules for telecommunications services, copyright, IT security and data protection.“We need a European market, which allows new business models to flourish, start-ups to grow and the industry to take advantage of the internet of things. And people have to invest too – in their IT-skills, be it in their job or their leisure time.”The report adds: “Too many Europeans cannot use online services that are available in other EU countries, often without any justification; or they are re-routed to a local store with different prices. Such discrimination cannot exist in a Single Market.”The news comes at a time when Steam, in particular, is trying to tighten its grip on regional pricing. Valve recently extended its restrictions affecting those who attempt to buy content in one region and then access it in another.Steam was also criticised earlier this month when it appeared to change its rules to as to comply with the EU’s 14-day refund requirement – only for users to discover that they must waive the right at the point of purchase.

GitHub is one of several major firms that has been the victim of cyber attacks over the last few days.“We are currently experience the largest DDoS [distributed denial of service] attack in GitHub’s history,” wrote the firm’s systems engineer Jesse Newland in an official blog post. "Based on reports we’ve received, we believe the intent of this attack is to convince us to remove a specific class of content.”The content Newland refers to is believes to be web pages that provide users from China with ways to circumvent censorship controls for the region.

If your child is playing 18-rated games such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, you could be reported to the police and social services. That's the message being sent to parents by a group of primary and secondary schools in Cheshire. In a letter, the Nantwich Education Partnership has warned parents about the levels of violence and sexual content that are prevalent in mature games. It says regular exposure could lead to "early sexualised behaviour" and leave children "vulnerable to sexual exploitation or extreme violence." Some parents have already voiced their disapproval, but headteachers say they're merely following the guidance set by their local authority: "If your child is allowed to have inappropriate access to any game or associated product that is designated 18+, we are advised to contact the police and children's social care as this is deemed neglectful."

Last week’s ‘official’ UK Top 10 chart would have been totally different if digital sales figures were taken into account.Key sources have shared data with MCV that underlines the disparity between ‘official’ charts and the still unmeasured digital world.The pressure is now mounting on the industry as a whole - publishers, format holders, data trackers and trade bodies - to start offering this kind of insight on a regular basis.If the UK charts included digital sales data, last week an entirely new IP would have been No.1 - the Paradox-published Cities: Skylines. The game sold 60,000 copies over 10 days in the UK alone.Elsewhere, indie sequel Hotline Miami 2 would have been at No. 4.One other new IP would have cracked the Top 10 on digital sales alone: Ori and the Blind Forest on Steam and Xbox One.Second-week digital sales of Sniper Elite spin-off Zombie Army Trilogy – UK studio Rebellion’s first self-published game on console – actually push the title up the chart when download numbers are paired with boxed figures. Minecraft gets a similar lift.The UK trade has been talking up a digital chart for years. But efforts by both Chart-Track and UKIE have stumbled as they failed to secure the support of 100 per cent of publishers.However, MCV put the chart on this page together over just a few days with input, data and guidance from the likes of Paradox Interactive and Rebellion, plus off-the-record guidance from retail sources wishing to remain anonymous for now.

So MCV will do the counting for youUntil a formal solution is offered for better showing the health of software sales in the UK, MCV is committed to offering a substitute.Going forward, we hope to start publishing regular charts accurately taking into account digital sales like the one above.Using a variety of sources, we will try to accurately portray a total measure of games sales in the UK, across both boxed and digital.We do not guarantee 100 per cent accuracy from day one – but what we do promise is to start bringing some unity on the otherwise separated and fractured data sources in the business.If you’d like to contribute to this new initiative, contact MCV editor Chris Dring atcdring@nbmedia.com. Data will be kept confidential at all times and used only to aggregate Top 10 or Top 20 rankings.

Last week’s Japanese retail charts resembled a bygone era, as the latest Final Fantasy and Resident Evil instalments topped the rankings.According to the latest data from Famitsu, the remastered PS4 edition of Final Fantasy Type-0, which was originally released on PSP exclusively in Japan back in 2011, was crowned as the biggest-selling game of the week, shifting over 91,000 units.Type-0’s success also helped to extend the success of Sony’s PS4 in the weekly hardware rankings, as the console claimed its fourth consecutive week at number one.Coming in second in the software charts was the PS4 edition of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Capcom’s console and PC sequel to the 3DS-only Revelations. The PS3 version of the game came fourth.The title was originally released digitally in a series of episodes over the previous four weeks – the boxed version of the game collates the episodes with extra content.Meanwhile, the PS4 release of new EA shooter Battlefield Hardline claimed third place, selling just over 65,000 units in its debut week.Other new entries last week included the PlayStation Vita Edition of Minecraft, which landed in fifth. It helped the Vita retain its second-place position in the weekly hardware charts.Two other new titles rounded out the Top Ten: Sega’s Phantasy Star Online 2 Episode 3 Deluxe Package and Takara Tomy Art’ catchily-titled PriPara & Pretty Rhythm: PriPara de Tsukaeru Oshare Item 1450!, which took ninth and tenth place, respectively.The slew of new releases meant that many of the charts’ stalwarts from the past few weeks dropped out of the Top Ten, including the previous week’s number three, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, and the second-highest title of the preceding week, Yakuza 0: Chikai no Basho on PS4.Former chart-topping title Yakuza 0: Chikai no Basho for PS3 dropped to sixth position in its second week.

A leading UK police officer has said that the UK’s current PEGI age rating system is not sufficient to protect minors from the most violent content.Northamptonshire’s police and crime commissioner Adam Simmonds wants a US-style Adults Only (AO) rating to help parents identify games with particularly brutal content that goes beyond what could normally be expected in a PEGI 18 game.Grand Theft Auto V is the cited example, alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. These games contain two infamous examples of game violence – Trevor’s torture scene the optional civilian slaughter level No Russian, respectively.In a report on the issue published today Simmonds claims that one in four children aged between four and 11 have seen online imagery that upsets them, with video games being the most common source. Furthermore, it says that 30 per cent of children have access to content and games for which they are underage, with one in ten saying they had played Call of Duty.“Controversy creates cash,” Simmonds said. “Many parents might not be fully aware that these games contain such disturbing scenes. It is time for the industry to play a more proactive role in protecting young minds.”“A new Adult Only rating alongside parental locks on consoles will better support parents in safeguarding their children. If companies fail to do this, games involving extreme violence or sexual content should be banned altogether.”US ratings body the ESRB has an AO rating (pictured), although its implementation has been rare. Upcoming controversial PC title Hatred has been awarded an AO, as did the pre-edit version of Rockstar’s Manhunt 2. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was also temporarily bumped from M (Mature) to AO following the discovery of the deleted ‘Hot Coffee’ sex scene, although the rating was lowered upon its removal.UPDATE: MCV has obtained a full copy of the report referenced, which is entitled ‘Online Safety: A Report by Northamptonshire Police & Crime Commission’. It doesn’t contain any references to proposed changes to the UK age ratings system, which appears to be a context used only in the Northants Police press release linked to above.

EA's new Battlefield game Hardline has debuted at No.1 in the Gfk Chart-Track Top 40. Not only is this the publisher's first No.1 of the year, but it's also the biggest launch of 2015 thus far. This is a more impressive debut than Battlefield 4. That title debuted in second place when it launched in November 2013 as it came out at a busier time of the year. Battlefield Hardline isn't the only new entrant into the chart. Square Enix's Final Fantasy Type-0 HD debuts in second place, while Wii U exclusive Mario Party 10 goes straight to No.6. The physical release of Resident Evil Revelations 2 is in seventh place. Last week's No.1 Grand Theft Auto V falls to third place, with sales declining five per cent week-on-week. Dying Light also falls two places to No.1 as sales dip 36 per cent. And despite retailer promotions, Disney Infinity 2.0 doesn't make it into the Top Ten, instead charting at No.11 this week. Meanwhile, a hardware bundle for Halo: The Master Chief Collection sees sales of the game shoot up 80 per cent, while the game rises up 14 to No.13. Below is the software Top 10 for the week ending March 21st: 1. Battlefield Hardline, EA
2. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, Square Enix
3. Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar
4. Dying Light, Warner Bros
5. FIFA 15, EA
6. Mario Party 10, Nintendo
7. Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Capcom
8. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision Blizzard
9. Minecraft: Xbox Edition, Microsoft
10. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition, Sony

The console cycle as we know it may be at an end, according to Twitch CEO Emmett Shear.In an interview with The Guardian, Shear predicts that hardware makers like Microsoft and Sony will shift their console release strategy to fall in line with the more frequent upgrade cycles of smartphones and tablets."The problem is, the seven-year upgrade lifecycle doesn't work in the face of the two-year upgrade cycles for every other hardware platform," Shear said. "It's so intrinsically built into how consoles get manufactured and made and the full business model, that I'd be surprised to see another generation."Shear added that he expects Sony and Microsoft to make slight improvements to their current console releases, rather than focusing on any next-gen plans."I could imagine a version 1.1 product from both Microsoft and Sony which adds in slightly more speed and slightly more memory very similar to how phones and tablets work today," Shear said. "I think it's going to look more like the mobile phone market over time."Shear also touched on Amazon's acquisition of his company for nearly $1bn, explaining that the deal allows Twitch to collaborate with a major player in the games market as well as maintain its independence."They sell video games effectively, they have a platform for producing video games, what Twitch brings to that is the missing piece of the puzzle: a community. We provide that reach, and it made a lot of sense. We also gained access to a lot of things through the purchase that it would have taken us a long time to build ourselves, if we ever actually could.""Amazon was committed to Twitch remaining independent," Shear said, adding, "I don't think I would have gone with any deal that didn't give us that level of independence."

PS4 may have again beaten Xbox One in the monthly US hardware charts in February, but it was Nintendo that emerged as the month’s surprise winner.The launch of the new 3DS XL in the region saw Nintendo’s handheld platform win the hardware race, while The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D was the best-selling game.Nintendo noted that the new 3DS XL sold 130 per cent more units in its first month than the numbers achieved by the original 3DS XL. For the first two months of the year 3DS hardware sales are up 90 per cent year-on-year, while Wii U sales were up 20 per cent.Looking exclusively at home consoles, Sony’s command of the market shows little sign of abating with PS4 outselling Xbox One yet again both in the hardware and software markets.Nonetheless, Microsoft said that Xbox One enjoyed its best February to date and that hardware sales were up 84 per cent month-on-month.In the NPD software charts 2K’s Evolve and Warner’s Dying Light claimed second and third behind Zelda – which, Nintendo said, sold 515k units throughout the month across physical and digital.Fellow new 3DS title Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate sold 290k, which is the best performance from an entry in the series to date and Capcom’s fastest ever 3DS seller, although it only just scraped into the Top Ten, one place behind new PS4 title The Order: 1886.Here’s the February Top 10:1. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (Nintendo)
2. Evolve (2K Games)
3. Dying Light (Warner Bros)
4. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision)
5. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
6. NBA 2K15 (2K)
7. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse (Bandai Namco)
8. Minecraft (Sony/Microsoft)
9. The Order: 1886 (Sony)
10. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)

Goodbye, Google Code. The technology giant has decided to close its project hosting and code collaboration site because, well, there are simply better alternatives on the web. Google says it launched the platform back in 2006 because it was unhappy with the "limited" options available to the open source community. Since then, the likes of GitHub and Bitbucket have risen to prominence, superseding Google Code's feature set and encouraging developers to transfer their projects. As such, Google's offering has become increasingly filled with spam and abuse, leading to the company's decision to pull the plug. Yesterday it stopped accepting new projects, and on August 24th the site will become read-only. Google Code will eventually be shuttered next January, although tarballs of project source, issues and wikis will continue to be available throughout 2016. If you need to transfer a project, head here for the relevant GitHub and Bitbucket migration tools.

Warner Bros and Techland's open world zombie title Dying Light once again takes pole position in the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. It keeps the top spot in spite of a 48 per cent decline in sales this week. The game has so far managed to outpace the other new IPs that launched this year, including Sony's The Order 1886 and 2K's Evolve, in spite of launching digital over a month ago. The Order fell three places to No.7, with a 62 per cent dip in sales, while Evolve falls to No.9 in its fourth week on sale with a 35 per cent sales decline. The rest of the Top Five are mostly familiar names. Grand Theft Auto V charts in second place, up from fifth last week. Sales of the game fell a mere ten per cent week-on-week.Meanwhile FIFA 15 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare fill out third and fourth places. And Bandai Namco's Dragon Ball: Xenoverse – which debuted in third place last week – falls to fifth with a 61 per cent drop in sales. In eighth place is Rebellion's first self-published title, Zombie Army Trilogy. The boxed release was handled by Sold Out. Here is the Top Ten for the week ending March 7th: 1. Dying Light, Warner Bros
2. Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar
3. FIFA 15, EA
4. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision Blizzard
5. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse, Bandai Namco
6. Minecraft: Xbox Edition, Microsoft
7. The Order 1886, Sony
8. Zombie Army Trilogy, Rebellion
9. Evolve, 2K Games
10. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition, Sony

The overall gaming hardware market reached $67bn in 2014, according to new data presented by analyst Jon Peddie Research.Games Industry reports on JPR's presentation, which claimed PC accounted for 33 per cent of the market, smartphones came in at 23 per cent, consoles and handhelds brought in 16 per cent, and tablets made up 11 per cent.JPR pointed out that global gaming software was worth $26bn in 2014, according to recent data provided by the Open Gaming Alliance.The two reports combine to indicate a total gaming market of around $93bn – with JPR expecting "robust growth" throughout in the coming years.The research firm also stated that it does not expect smartphones to somehow catch or pass consoles in regards to raw processing power and graphics – adding that the thought that phones offer “console quality” graphics tends to reference older console generations."There is no such thing as catching up. Moore's law serves all platforms.”Android is starting to make significant inroads in the hardware market as well. JPR states the Android console sector represents a "paradigm shift" for the market – as more than 1bn Android users can be leveraged. The firm also projects a rise in dedicated Android portable gaming devices over the next few years.

A retail-led survey has found that UK children under the age of 12 are now more likely to own a tablet than a games console.46 per cent owned a tablet and 43 per cent a games console. These were followed by mobile phones (30%), laptops (28%) and MP3 players (15%).It also found that over two thirds of kids own some sort of tech or gadgetry, with the average owning three such items. Kids are on average only five years old when they receive their first gadget and the average worth of these accumulated trinkets is £375.On average kids spend 2.5 hours per day playing with said items.The survey, run by Vouchercloud.com, polled 2,482 UK adults who had at least one child under 12.“We can’t escape from it, all aspects of our lives are becoming ‘smart’ or ‘i’ or powered by gadgets, with toy collections no exception to this rule,” Matthew Wood said. “Gadgets and their capabilities have developed so rapidly that they have started to be seen as a necessity, rather than a luxury. Peer pressure from the playground and glossy ads have dictated that children are part of this shift in attitudes to technology, if not leaders in it.”

New data collected by research firm Superdata claims PlayStation hardware is generating significantly more digital revenue than Xbox in the US.Superdata's research, which pulls data from 37m “paying online gamers" and focuses on the performance of the top ten digital console games of last month, shows 63 per cent of the related revenue coming from PS3 and PS4 consoles.Xbox 360 and Xbox One occupy the remaining 37 per cent, while PS4 alone claimed 43 per cent of the total.GTA V was on top of what is the first of Superdata's monthly chart releases moving forward, with an estimated $31.8m in online sales during January. The company notes that all figures account for full-game downloads and DLC purchases.The report also placed an annual total value of $49bn on the console digital download market."The digital games market now constitutes the majority of revenues in interactive entertainment,” the report reads. “As consumer spending continues to shift away from retail, the landscape of top performing games is shifting with it.”

The release of the next entry in Bandai Namco’s God Eater franchise has shaken up the Japanese retail charts.According to the latest data from Famitsu, the Vita edition of action RPG God Eater 2 Rage Burst was the top-selling game of last week, selling more than 221,000 copies.The PS4 version of the title placed third in the rankings, one place below Nintendo’s remastered edition of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for 3DS.Meanwhile, The Order: 1886, last week’s best-selling title in the UK, took fourth position in its debut week in Japan, selling 26,000 units.The only other new release to crack the Top Ten was Koei Tecmo’s Dead or Alive 5: Last Round. The PS4 and PS3 releases of the game placed sixth and eighth, respectively.As a result of God Eater 2’s success in the software charts, Nintendo’s New 3DS and New 3DS XL were knocked from their place at the top of the hardware rankings.Sony’s PS4 home console and Vita handheld became the first and second-best-selling hardware for the week.The Vita managed to shift 32,790 units – almost 10,000 more than PS4’s 23,210.The New 3DS and New 3DS sold 19,542 and 6,792, respectively.

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